low wages unciDylcul ing and how we can defend and extend our rights.
The report admits that the many failings .Ene eos anon aTe Dems mat mn raci lo canu cuai you get woman who was refused equal pay with the man whose loo she nao lust nue• on ue grounds Whal as the man no longer held the job there was no one for the woman's pay to be compared with!
prices.
of exaceroaicd pay a direct comthe absurd situation of one Needless to sav this is not the conclusion of the EOC report. It admits that the Equal Pay Act has 'outlived usefulness' women saoud now • DI CaCI HODCDiscrimination Act becuase job segregation is the Even the report points out that the latter has done muie to change te present situanon, Il lakes little account of indirect discrimination: women are often excluded from better paid jobs because SHOTS uke nega which employers can stipulate at will, or even by protective legislation which often stops women gelung une migner paid Joos Most important of all the Sex Discrimination Act makes no provision for positive discriminabot mm me nuie or wonen. atmoreru does suggest that this should happen in the training of This means that contace co cer mto cae beuer oale mausuries The act does not give legal recognition to the fact that most women start from an unequal position nauoral Lavou conlerclcc slalcs. through Britain's official view is that 'Care must be taken not to make time workers so economically unatcholoved tractive to employers as to impair their prospects of employment.
Far from being
The cnoovers. rescaren nas shown una part-timers work harder than full-timers, and they legal salc udrus. vital in certain industries part-time Jennifer found in the service sector.
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policies of the Tory government. The Equal Pay Act for example is unique in Europe in stipulating